1972 (Redirected from AD 1972)

Clockwise from top-left: an earthquake in Nicaragua kills 4,000–11,000 people; the first commercial home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is released; a photo of the Earth known as The Blue Marble is taken during Apollo's final mission; during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a terrorist attack carried out; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed; Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes at the Andes, survivors resort to cannibalism to survive; President Ferdinand Marcos announces on television that the entirety of the Philippines is under martial law (eventually lifted in 1981); US President Richard Nixon is implicated in a scandal involving the theft of documents from the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
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1972 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1972
MCMLXXII
Ab urbe condita2725
Armenian calendar1421
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԱ
Assyrian calendar6722
Baháʼí calendar128–129
Balinese saka calendar1893–1894
Bengali calendar1379
Berber calendar2922
British Regnal year20 Eliz. 2 – 21 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2516
Burmese calendar1334
Byzantine calendar7480–7481
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4669 or 4462
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4670 or 4463
Coptic calendar1688–1689
Discordian calendar3138
Ethiopian calendar1964–1965
Hebrew calendar5732–5733
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2028–2029
 - Shaka Samvat1893–1894
 - Kali Yuga5072–5073
Holocene calendar11972
Igbo calendar972–973
Iranian calendar1350–1351
Islamic calendar1391–1392
Japanese calendarShōwa 47
(昭和47年)
Javanese calendar1903–1904
Juche calendar61
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4305
Minguo calendarROC 61
民國61年
Nanakshahi calendar504
Thai solar calendar2515
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
2098 or 1717 or 945
    — to —
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
2099 or 1718 or 946
Unix time63072000 – 94694399

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.

Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908).

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Births

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January

Lilian Thuram
Sakis Rouvas
Amanda Peet

February

Leymah Gbowee
Rob Thomas
Jaromír Jágr
Billie Joe Armstrong
Keith Ferguson
Pedro Sánchez

March

Shaquille O'Neal
Leslie Mann

April

Jennifer Garner
Carmen Electra
Željko Joksimović
Sergio Massa

May

Julie Benz
Dwayne Johnson
Martin Brodeur
Maia Sandu

June

Karl Urban
Jean Dujardin
Zinedine Zidane
Geeta Tripathee
Maria Butyrskaya

July

Lisa Leslie
Sofía Vergara
Maya Rudolph
Wil Wheaton

August

Ben Affleck
Cameron Diaz

September

Idris Elba
Queen Letizia of Spain
Gwyneth Paltrow
Ari Behn

October

Eminem
Gabrielle Union

November

Toni Collette
Thandiwe Newton
Josh Duhamel

December

Daniel Alfredsson
John Abraham
Alyssa Milano
Jude Law

Deaths

January

Maurice Chevalier
Mahalia Jackson

February

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

March

Meena Kumari

April

George Sanders
Kwame Nkrumah

May

J. Edgar Hoover
Lee Beom-seok
Edward VIII

June

Joe Deakin

July

Paul-Henri Spaak

August

Max Theiler

September

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
Akim Tamiroff

October

Jackie Robinson

November

Arnold Jackson

December

Harry S. Truman
Lester B. Pearson

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